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Lonely Planet French Phrasebook & Dictionary
Lonely Planet: The world's #1 phrasebook publisher*
Lonely Planet French Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful French phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Ask about tucked-away vineyards, bargain with local famers at the market or order wine like a professional; all with your trusted travel companion. With language tools in your back pocket, you can truly get to the heart of wherever you go, so begin your journey now!
Get More From Your Trip with Easy-to-Find Phrases for Every Travel Situation!
Feel at ease with essential tips on culture, manners, idioms and multiple meanings
Order with confidence, explain food allergies, and try new foods with the menu decoder
Save time and hassles with vital phrases at your fingertips
Never get stuck for words with the 3500-word two-way, quick-reference dictionary
Be prepared for both common and emergency travel situations with practical phrases and terminology
Meet friends with conversation starter phrases
Get your message across with easy-to-use pronunciation guides
Inside Lonely Planet French Phrasebook & Dictionary:
Full-colour throughout
User-friendly layout organised by travel scenario categories
Survival phrases inside front cover for at-a-glance on-the-fly cues
Convenient features
5 Phrases to Learn Before You Go
10 Ways to Start a Sentence
10 Phrases to Sound like a Local
Listen For - phrases you may hear
Look For - phrases you may see on signs
Shortcuts - easy-to-remember alternatives to the full phrases
Q&A - suggested answers to questions asked
Covers
Basics - time, dates, numbers, amounts, pronunciation, reading tips, grammar rules
Practical - travel with kids, disabled travellers, sightseeing, business, banking, post office, internet, phones, repairs, bargaining, accommodation, directions, border crossing, transport
Social - meeting people, interests, feelings, opinions, going out, romance, culture, activities, weather
Safe Travel - emergencies, police, doctor, chemist, dentist, symptoms, conditions
Food - ordering, at the market, at the bar, dishes, ingredients
The Perfect Choice:Lonely Planet French Phrasebook & Dictionary , a pocket-sized comprehensive language guide, provides on-the-go language assistance; great for language students and travellers looking to interact with locals and immerse themselves in local culture.
Looking for just the basics? Check out Lonely Planet's Fast Talk French, a pocket-sized, essential language guide designed to get you talking quickly; perfect for a quick trip experience.
Looking for an auditory guide to pronunciations? Check out Lonely Planet's French Phrasebook & Audio CD.
Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Michael Janes, Jean-Pierre Masclef, Jean-Bernard Carillet.
About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet is the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, and has been connecting travellers and locals for over 25 years with phrasebooks for 120 languages, more than any other publisher! With an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community, Lonely Planet enables curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves. The world awaits!
*#1 phrasebook publisher. Source: Nielsen Bookscan UK, US & AUS
Lonely Planet French Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful French phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Ask about tucked-away vineyards, bargain with local famers at the market or order wine like a professional; all with your trusted travel companion. With language tools in your back pocket, you can truly get to the heart of wherever you go, so begin your journey now!
Get More From Your Trip with Easy-to-Find Phrases for Every Travel Situation!
Feel at ease with essential tips on culture, manners, idioms and multiple meanings
Order with confidence, explain food allergies, and try new foods with the menu decoder
Save time and hassles with vital phrases at your fingertips
Never get stuck for words with the 3500-word two-way, quick-reference dictionary
Be prepared for both common and emergency travel situations with practical phrases and terminology
Meet friends with conversation starter phrases
Get your message across with easy-to-use pronunciation guides
Inside Lonely Planet French Phrasebook & Dictionary:
Full-colour throughout
User-friendly layout organised by travel scenario categories
Survival phrases inside front cover for at-a-glance on-the-fly cues
Convenient features
5 Phrases to Learn Before You Go
10 Ways to Start a Sentence
10 Phrases to Sound like a Local
Listen For - phrases you may hear
Look For - phrases you may see on signs
Shortcuts - easy-to-remember alternatives to the full phrases
Q&A - suggested answers to questions asked
Covers
Basics - time, dates, numbers, amounts, pronunciation, reading tips, grammar rules
Practical - travel with kids, disabled travellers, sightseeing, business, banking, post office, internet, phones, repairs, bargaining, accommodation, directions, border crossing, transport
Social - meeting people, interests, feelings, opinions, going out, romance, culture, activities, weather
Safe Travel - emergencies, police, doctor, chemist, dentist, symptoms, conditions
Food - ordering, at the market, at the bar, dishes, ingredients
The Perfect Choice:Lonely Planet French Phrasebook & Dictionary , a pocket-sized comprehensive language guide, provides on-the-go language assistance; great for language students and travellers looking to interact with locals and immerse themselves in local culture.
Looking for just the basics? Check out Lonely Planet's Fast Talk French, a pocket-sized, essential language guide designed to get you talking quickly; perfect for a quick trip experience.
Looking for an auditory guide to pronunciations? Check out Lonely Planet's French Phrasebook & Audio CD.
Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Michael Janes, Jean-Pierre Masclef, Jean-Bernard Carillet.
About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet is the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, and has been connecting travellers and locals for over 25 years with phrasebooks for 120 languages, more than any other publisher! With an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community, Lonely Planet enables curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves. The world awaits!
*#1 phrasebook publisher. Source: Nielsen Bookscan UK, US & AUS
272 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2009
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A beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of adventure. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the end – broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and stapling together their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies and Lonely Planet was born. One hundred million guidebooks later, Lonely Planet is the world’s leading travel guide publisher with content to almost every destination on the planet.
A beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of adventure. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the end – broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and stapling together their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies and Lonely Planet was born. One hundred million guidebooks later, Lonely Planet is the world’s leading travel guide publisher with content to almost every destination on the planet.
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June 20, 2022
Whenever I've visited a country whose language is other than English, I've always tried to make an attempt to learn, at least, some basic courtesies, phrases, and words of their language. No, I'll never be fluent, but I view this as a courtesy thing --- not always just assuming that everyone speaks English and desiring to be a good guest in the host country.
So with that in mind and, finding, short notice, I was going to France --- and no background in French other than a high school semester from 39 years ago --- I looked for what resources I could: like Duolingo -- and this guidebook on French phrases.
To be honest, books like this probably will increasingly become relics of the past --- at least in places with Internet access. Within a fraction of the time it takes to find a word in the glossary or to thumb through it, one can much quicker do the same with today's Internet and software applications. However, this book was still somewhat useful in giving me phrases often used in France for everyday communications that you would not get from, say, Google Translate.
Even so, this book could have been more useful if its organization had been more logical in the way, I think, most travelers would need. Most Anglophone visitors to France probably get there by airplane, and most have to find some place to eat. As it turned out, Delta Airlines and Air France managed to lose my luggage --- so a section at the front giving me help in communicating with Air France personnel about my problem would have been helpful --- instead of the humorous efforts of us to bridge our language barrier. Also, I had to get something to eat that same day of arrival--- but the section on eating out is on page 155 of a 271 page book, making it clumsy and cumbersome with respect to ready use. In between all that, they had sections on socializing and romance --- great, if you're going to France making social contacts right off the plane --- not helpful for a first time business traveler like me.
I think, if I was doing this book for Lonely Planet, I would have organized it in logical fashion --- from the transportation to get to France to eating out to getting a taxi or Uber to checking in at the hotel. Instead, common phrases for these things are scattered in illogical flow through it.
Even so, I have found this book of use --- just not as much use, however, as I'd originally thought. It's an ok little guide, but I'm sure there may be other similar such books better organized for the first time traveler to a Francophone country.
So with that in mind and, finding, short notice, I was going to France --- and no background in French other than a high school semester from 39 years ago --- I looked for what resources I could: like Duolingo -- and this guidebook on French phrases.
To be honest, books like this probably will increasingly become relics of the past --- at least in places with Internet access. Within a fraction of the time it takes to find a word in the glossary or to thumb through it, one can much quicker do the same with today's Internet and software applications. However, this book was still somewhat useful in giving me phrases often used in France for everyday communications that you would not get from, say, Google Translate.
Even so, this book could have been more useful if its organization had been more logical in the way, I think, most travelers would need. Most Anglophone visitors to France probably get there by airplane, and most have to find some place to eat. As it turned out, Delta Airlines and Air France managed to lose my luggage --- so a section at the front giving me help in communicating with Air France personnel about my problem would have been helpful --- instead of the humorous efforts of us to bridge our language barrier. Also, I had to get something to eat that same day of arrival--- but the section on eating out is on page 155 of a 271 page book, making it clumsy and cumbersome with respect to ready use. In between all that, they had sections on socializing and romance --- great, if you're going to France making social contacts right off the plane --- not helpful for a first time business traveler like me.
I think, if I was doing this book for Lonely Planet, I would have organized it in logical fashion --- from the transportation to get to France to eating out to getting a taxi or Uber to checking in at the hotel. Instead, common phrases for these things are scattered in illogical flow through it.
Even so, I have found this book of use --- just not as much use, however, as I'd originally thought. It's an ok little guide, but I'm sure there may be other similar such books better organized for the first time traveler to a Francophone country.
January 14, 2015
French is just fancy English. English is kind of lame! Once I learn how to speak French I'll never English again. I obviously don't know about how accurate the phrases are just yet but I have a lot of faith in the integrity of Lonely Planet and the content is of quality and well structured.
February 17, 2019
“Madame Aubergine a posé un papillon sur ma Renault, et les poulets m’ont ramené dans un panier à salade.”
February 4, 2015
This book has a brief over-view of common quotes and words that the French might use everyday.
But for some reason it has some content on some quotes one might use during sex. Yes, I said sex.
That's Lonely Planet for you!
But for some reason it has some content on some quotes one might use during sex. Yes, I said sex.
That's Lonely Planet for you!
September 30, 2024
Was helpful when we went to Paris
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April 9, 2024
Whenever I'm curious about a language I always go to Lonely Planet and since thus year I'm going to Paris twice, this was handy to get to know some of the words and phrases
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